RT Journal Article
T1 Distributional divergence as a unifying measurement framework
A1 Lasso de la Vega, Casilda
A1 Rodríguez Hernández, Juan Gabriel
A1 Salas Del Mármol, Rafael
AB The measurement of various economic phenomena, including income inequality, poverty, richness, inequality-of-opportunity, horizontal equity, mobility, wage discrimination and goodness of fit, are examples of the measurement of the divergence between distributions. In all these examples there is a reference distribution and the aim is to examine to what extent any given distribution differs from the reference one. By providing an axiomatic characterization of a family of indices for measuring divergence between distributions, this paper provides a unifying framework for incorporating the measurement of many economic phenomena, while exploring the relationship of the derived family of indices to other existing measures.
PB Springer Nature
SN 1569-1721
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/124514
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/124514
LA eng
NO Lasso de la Vega, C., Rodríguez, J.G. & Salas, R. Distributional divergence as a unifying measurement framework. J Econ Inequal (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-025-09677-6
NO 2025 Acuerdos transformativos CRUE
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
NO Comunidad de Madrid
NO Eusko Jaurlaritza
DS Docta Complutense
RD 15 abr 2026